Description: Better Safe than Sorry helps place contemporary anxieties about nuclear proliferation into a historical context, and also looks at what lies ahead in terms of nuclear danger. By focusing on the events that can do the most damage, the author's intention is to clarify and reinforce useful preventive measures, and explore how we can be safe without being sorry.
Review Quotes: "Michael Krepon's Better Safe Than Sorry is a succinct, masterful guide to the nuclear age, past and present. If our leaders read and heed it, tomorrow will be safer than yesterday was."--Richard Rhodes "Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb"